'Django' Stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx Rechained For WB Crime Movie

By Jeff Sneider

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Django Unchained" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx are set to play bad-ass detectives in "Mean Business on North Ganson Street," an adaptation of S. Craig Zahler's upcoming crime novel that has just been acquired by Warner Bros.

Zahler ("The Brigands of Rattleborge") will write the script, and DiCaprio will produce with his Appian Way partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran.

"Mean Business" marks the first major deal made by Greg Silverman since he was promoted to run the studio's worldwide feature film production arm in the wake of Jeff Robinov's departure.

Story follows a disgraced detective (DiCaprio) who is sent to Victory, Missouri, where violent crime is skyrocketing. He's partnered with another detective (Foxx) who was demoted for brutalizing a suspect. When police officers start showing up dead, they get to work on finding the person responsible for declaring open season on Victory's police department.

Foxx next stars opposite Channing Tatum in "White House Down," which opens on Friday, while DiCaprio will soon be seen in Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street."

Zahler is prepping to direct "Bone Tomahawk," which stars Kurt Russell and Timothy Olyphant.

Deadline broke the news.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/django-stars-leonardo-dicaprio-jamie-foxx-rechained-wb-000935396.html

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News in Brief: Experimental type 1 diabetes treatment shows promise

Findings in small group hint that DNA-based vaccine could work

By Nathan Seppa

Web edition: June 27, 2013

Using an experimental DNA-based therapy, scientists might slow the self-destructive immune reaction against insulin-making cells that causes type 1 diabetes. The finding, appearing in the June 26 Science Translational Medicine, represents a promising but preliminary advance toward devising a treatment for the condition, which often strikes in childhood.

Lawrence Steinman of Stanford University and his colleagues injected 26 volunteers weekly with placebos. Another 54 got the experimental treatment, which is designed to dampen the body?s immune reaction against insulin-making beta cells in the pancreas. In diabetes patients, rogue CD8 T cells attack a protein on beta cells called proinsulin, a precursor compound that becomes insulin after modification. The attack sabotages beta cells and insulin production.

The experimental treatment contains replacement DNA for the gene encoding proinsulin. Patients who received the DNA for 12 weeks apparently made altered proinsulin proteins that signal the immune system to rein in the rogue T cells. After five months, levels of the T cells declined in treated patients. The patients also showed stabilization and even improvement in measures of insulin production, suggesting that the therapy might arrest beta cell destruction, the authors say. But both changes didn?t last long after treatment ended.

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/351254/title/News_in_Brief_Experimental_type_1_diabetes_treatment_shows_promise

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Once homeless, family lives in house donated by Enbridge | Battle ...

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Source: http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20130626/NEWS01/306260016/Once-homeless-family-lives-house-donated-by-Enbridge

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PasswordBox

When you're planning to introduce a new product, it makes sense to review competing products, taking note of their best features and of any features that seem to be missing. The creators of the PasswordBox password manager seem to have done just that. Quite a few of PasswordBox's feature resemble those of top competitors, but it adds features not found in any of them.

Quite a few password managers use a freemium marketing model. LastPass 2.0 Premium includes significant features not found in the free LastPass 2.0. You can use Dashlane 2.0 and Keeper 5.0 for free on one device, but syncing multiple devices requires a paid subscription.

PasswordBox's freemium model is quite simple. The free edition is completely full-featured, but you can only store 25 passwords. After that you need to pay for a subscription, $12 per year. Note that you can import passwords from any one of several competitors, even if it pushes your total past 25. Don't want to pay? You can "go pro" by successfully referring five friends, and when you do, you get a lifetime license, not just a single year. That's quite a deal!

Getting Started
PasswordBox installs in a flash as an extension for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, or Safari. Just click the toolbar button to pull down its main window. To help get you started, the program presents a collection of popular websites for which it has already created login templates. Click one of the buttons, enter your username and password, and you've created a one-click login for that site.

Like Dashlane, PasswordBox has a built-in system to walk new users through the product's features. As you accomplish each task, it gets crossed out. In order to reach 100 percent, you must add a password, try a one-click login from PasswordBox, and add a total of eight passwords. You also have to send an invitation to at least one friend, and identify a trusted person to receive your passwords in the event of your death; more about that feature later.

When you've accomplished all the setup tasks, the notification bar vanishes, just as in Dashlane. If you need further instruction in how to use the program, you'll find a collection of short video tutorials accessible from the Settings page, as well as built-in help and FAQs.

There is one setting you'll probably want to change. Once you open your browser and launch PasswordBox, it stays unlocked until you shut down the browser. It does have an auto-lock feature, but it's disabled by default. I'd recommend setting it to lock after a fairly short amount of idle time. Note that the corresponding feature in Keeper is always enabled, and the longest timeout you can set is ten minutes.

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Conn. grants $500K for lost business in Newtown

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ? For Vito Kala, owner of an Italian restaurant not far from a street leading to the grade school in Newtown where 20 children and six educators were shot dead last month, the murders were not only emotionally draining, but also financially.

Roads in the area were initially clogged with police cars and ambulances, then by TV satellite trucks and eventually a crush of visitors paying their respects at makeshift memorials. As a result, many customers could not get to The Villa restaurant or more than a dozen other area businesses.

"We were isolated," Kala said. "It was the worst month for me."

In addition to limited access to businesses because of crowds, the long mourning period in the community soured the appetite for holiday parties, shopping and decorating. Responding to pleas for help, the state stepped in on Tuesday, giving Newtown a $500,000 grant to help businesses recover.

"The community as a whole was not in a celebratory mood to do Christmas shopping," said Elizabeth Stocker, Newtown's director of economic and community development. "People shopping, friends going out to eat and doing what you can to prepare for the holidays all got thrown out the window."

About a week after the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, business owners asked whether town officials could do anything to help them "get through the crisis," Stocker said.

So town officials went to the state. It was decided that a grant from the state's Small Town Economic Assistance Program would be the quickest way to deliver money to Newtown, said Catherine Smith, commissioner of the state Department of Economic and Community Development.

"This is a bit out of our normal realm, but it was very important for that part of the state, so we were happy to help out," Smith said.

As many as 16 businesses are affected, said Newtown First Selectman E. Patricia Llodra.

The included restaurants, a delicatessen, a dress shop, a toy store, a karate studio, a coffee shop and other small businesses that were essentially shut for nearly two weeks, Llodra. The town told state officials that not helping would devastate the small businesses.

"This would be a harm on top of a harm," Llodra said.

Additionally, there are costs to workers who lost pay because their employers closed, Stocker said.

Some businesses, though, benefited from an increase in visitors and reporters, she said.

"When we visited the businesses in Sandy Hook, a couple said they would not need assistance because they did not have any drop off in activity," she said. "Some businesses were OK."

Officials have not yet drawn up a process to distribute the money, Llodra said.

Associated Press

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66 Million US Households Will Access The Internet Via Game ...

Ten years ago, the most common way to connect to the Internet at home was via a PC or a laptop. Now, connectivity at home is increasingly being supplemented by tablets, smartphones, and other media devices, although PCs/laptops still dominate. Consumer electronics device manufacturers cashing in on this shift are offering Internet-ready capabilities in many of their devices. Although the notion of ?connected devices? can be quite broad, we focused specifically on game consoles, Blu-ray players, and high-definition (HD) TVs in our recently published Forrester Research Connected Devices Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US). Here is a brief commentary on each of these device segments:

• Game consoles: In 2012, the game console manufacturers experienced declining sales. Unlike in the past, when the introduction of a new console generally saw significant uptake in sales, Nintendo?s Wii U (launched in Q4 2012) is not expected to hit the peak sales of the original Wii. We believe that this trend will be seen more broadly in the game console industry. This is largely (though not exclusively) driven by the availability of low-cost/"freemium" titles on smartphones and tablets, which fulfill the gaming needs of the casual gamer ? and have a negative impact on the console market. However, we still expect the console market to see moderate growth. By 2017, the majority of consoles will be ?connected? to an IP connection because consoles are multi-purpose and allow users to do many activities online such as rent/buy movies and TV shows, purchase games, watch streaming videos, and listen to streaming music.
• Blu-ray players: The sales of Blu-ray players have continued to increase over the past five years but at a slower pace than the DVD players in their early years. Growth drivers for Blu-ray player sales include declining prices, bundled offers with HDTVs, DVD player replacements, the availability of more titles in the Blu-ray format, and Blu-ray disc availability via kiosk rental channels. However, consumers? preference for owning fewer optical discs and the availability of streaming services via set-top boxes, game consoles, and connected TVs will moderate the standalone Blu-ray player sales growth. Availability of Blu-ray disc playing capability in the game consoles such as Sony PS3 will also decelerate the sales of standalone Blu-ray players.
• Connected HDTVs: By 2017, as the number of ?connectable TVs? increases, more US households will have a connected TV than will have a connected game console or a connected Blu-ray player. We expect the number of connected HDTVs to grow faster due to the availability of an increasing number of movies and TV shows via online streaming services, a shift in consumers? preference for watching more online video content via their TVs, the increasing maturity of TV operating systems, and the anticipated large-scale production of OLED TVs starting in 2014.

We expect 66 million US households ? 54% of the total ? to access the Internet via one or more of these types of devices in 2017; they will usually supplement, rather than replace, incumbent devices like PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. People will also connect to the Internet via devices such as set-top boxes, portable media players, eReaders, digital photo frames, and even connected digital cameras. With the proliferation of many consumer technology devices that are connected and the rapid rise of Social/Mobile apps, consumer behavior is taking on a profound shift in how it consumes media, interacts with brands and people, and where it interacts from. This shift will challenge the existing business models of Media and Telecom industries and will result in newer opportunities for Internet-based businesses.

Source: http://blogs.forrester.com/jitender_miglani/13-01-07-66_million_us_households_will_access_the_internet_via_game_consoles_blu_ray_players_or_connected_?cm_mmc=RSS-_-MS-_-1710-_-blog_Jitender-Miglani

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Report: Syrian troops repulse rebels in Aleppo

BEIRUT (AP) ? Syria's state media said Monday that government troops repulsed a rebel attack on a police school in the northern city of Aleppo, one day after President Bashar Assad called on Syrians to fight rebels he characterized as religious extremists.

SANA news agency said members of the "terrorist group" were killed and wounded in the late Sunday battle but did not specify the number, The government and the pro-regime media refer to rebels as terrorists.

Aleppo, Syria's largest city and a former commercial hub, has been a major front in the civil war since July, with battles often raging for control of military and security facilities such as the police school. Rebels have recently made significant advances there, in the east, and in the capital Damascus, bringing the civil war closer to the seat of Assad's power.

In his speech Sunday, Assad laid out terms for a peace plan but dismissed any chance of dialogue with "murderous criminals" who he said were responsible for nearly two years of violence. Nearly 60,000 people have died, according to a recent United Nations estimate.

Assad appeared confident and relaxed in a one-hour speech ? his first public address in six months. He struck a defiant tone, ignoring international demands for him to step down and saying he is ready to hold a dialogue ? but only with those "who have not betrayed Syria." He also vowed to continue the battle "as long as there is one terrorist left."

He offered a national reconciliation conference, elections and a new constitution but demanded regional and Western countries stop funding and arming rebels trying to overthrow his regime first.

Syria's opposition swiftly rejected the proposal. Those fighting to topple the regime, including rebels on the ground, have repeatedly said they will accept nothing less than the president's departure, dismissing any kind of settlement that leaves him in the picture.

The West, including the U.S. and Britain that have called on Assad to step down denounced the speech that came amid stepped-up international efforts for a peaceful way out of the Syrian conflict.

Previous diplomatic initiatives have failed to stem the bloodshed.

Syria conflict began as peaceful protests after the uprising against Assad authoritarian rule erupted in March 2011. It morphed into civil war after a brutal government crackdown on dissent.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/report-syrian-troops-repulse-rebels-aleppo-094507523.html

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